John & Anne Wiley

2010/05/21

Itchy Feathers

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Random,Tripp — John @ 07:25

When I haven’t flown for a week or two, a pervasive feeling comes over me that we call itchy feathers. I look at the mountains assessing air clarity, look out toward the beach to check for coastal low clouds or fog, look both East and West along the coast to see what routes might be most fun, and of course I’m keenly aware of every indication of winds.  Perhaps more noticeable though is that my head whips around to locate every passing aircraft.  At least I don’t jump up and run outside unless it’s that distinctive sound of the Merlin announcing the brief presence of a P-51 (probably my fav airplane, and interestingly Tripp’s tail number once belonged to one). Anyway, we took yesterday off from helping with the annual and today worked another half day. Starting this morning, even though it’s only been a week since our last flight I was exhibiting every symptom of itchy feather syndrome. Only love of our still partly dismantled bird kept me from trying to beg a ride with someone. I’m hoping we can at least have her airworthy tomorrow so we don’t have to suffer through a flightless weekend. We’ll see…

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